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The Growth of the City in the 1890s

There were about half million people in the city around the time of the ring and then in the 1890s it's like one and a half million. It's gone up by three times in 20 years and it's gonna more than double again over the next 20 years. We know this phenomenon it's like crash Chinese urbanism. I mean like urban urbanization. The masses of people coming in to there's jobs in the city because economy is growing, industrializing people are flooding in. There's a lot of people with pretty low expectations from the countryside who've not been living terribly exciting lives. And there's also Like a load of people making money out of new businesses and this new bourgeois

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